Emily asked the other day if I could post another “Blast from the Past”.  So – Emily, this one is for you.

The picture above is taken in August of 2002 at the Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead here in Overland Park. This is a small 12-acre municipal farm/park that has over 200 animals & birds, gardens, fishing pond, playground, one-room school house, and pony rides.  The park is named after the first Overland Park police officer to die in the line of duty.

When the girls were preschool age, Linda would take the girls to Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead a lot – it was free!  The girls would get to pet and feed goats, slide on big slides, see big peacocks, and get to play with the water pump.  They would spend hours at the water pumps if we’d let them.  The device you see above has a circular system in it – as the kid pumped water into the bucket, it emptied down a hole in the bottom of the bucket and circled back up through as it was pumped.  Presto – hours of entertainment for a 4- and 3-year old kid.